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Yashua916

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Hello all!
I was hoping I could get some advice on a new gaming rig that I want to build. The main usage will be gaming, school (It/Networking) , and Gaming with some major media power housing going on.
A Key! feature that I am trying to integrate is to have a bootable win7 on a ssd, with also a seprate bootable ssd running lion OSX. It can be done but it needs high end hardware that accepts both os's. That is more a hobbists goal but we will see how attainable per dollar amount it really is.
In the attached file I created a spreadsheet with all the pertint info. Please feel free to comment on any piece of hardware as I am buying in 3 months thanks guys.

P.s. I am also going for a major OC'ing machine hence the oc gear... I wont be doing really heavy stuff that should warrant all the water cooling, but I do plan to run crossfire and multiple screens for gaming and within a few years they will step it up into multiple core gaming so I want to be ready for the future... what if a game makes use of all my 8 cores...hmmm well I want that power to be there so its more for future growth than it is going cooler crazy thanks!:comp:
 

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First of all, AMD's Bulldozer series is inferior to the Sandy Bridge platform. Sandy Bridge outperforms it, is cheaper, and draws a LOT less power and outputs a LOT less heat. As a result, high end cooling isn't necessary at all. Even putting it under liquid nitrogen only gets 200-300Mhz more then what you get on a pretty good air heatsink. My advice is to ditch the WC for now.

Personally, I (shoot me) prefer OSX for general web browsing. However, when I looked into a Hackintosh, it's just not worth the trouble. Maybe if you want to build the computer SOLELY for the purpose of running a Hackintosh, but if you're trying to combine it with a gaming build, it's just not worth it.

By the way, a 6870 is a very "mid-range" GPU, not really high end by any standard. High end GPUs run close to $500.

Also, you probably won't get much feedback here about the water cooling. The people knowledgeable about that often hang out in the water cooling section of the forum. They also need very specific information about your parts in order to help, so your best plan of action is splitting the budget. Dedicate a certain amount to the gaming rig itself, a certain amount to the watercooling loop. Figure out what hardware you want, and then focus on the water loop.

And if you're buying in three months, you will probably be buying CPU, motherboards, and GPUs that don't actually exist at the moment. Technology is fast moving market. Planning now really doesn't offer you that much of a benefit since almost everything will change in three months.
 
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